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Profil

PhD, Graduate Institute of International Studies and University of Geneva
Dr Rodogno was a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics (2002-2004), Foreign Associate Researcher at the Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent in Paris (2004-2005), Academic Fellow - Research Council United Kingdom Academic Fellow - at the School of History, University of St Andrews (2005-2010), and SNSF – Research Professor (2008-2011). Associate professor (2011-2014) and full professor since 2014 at the Graduate Institute, he serves as head of the International History Department (2014-2017). His doctoral thesis was published in Italian in 2003 and in English as Fascism’s European Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Rodogno was grantee of the Rockefeller Archives Centre in 2011, he was grantee of the SNSF ‘Sinergia’ programme on a project entitled Patterns of Transnational Regulations. He researches the history of philanthropic foundations, and international public health since the nineteenth century. In 2011 Rodogno published Against Massacre: Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire (1815-1914), the Birth of a Concept and International Practice (Princeton University Press). During the summer of 2012 the Kofi Annan Foundation mandated Rodogno to write a report documenting the experience of the United Nations and League of Arab States Joint Special Envoy for Syria. More recently, Rodogno co-edited and authored a volume on the history of Humanitarian Photography, a volume on Transnational Networks of Experts in the Long Nineteenth century, and another on the League of Nations’ social work. He currently works on a third monograph tentatively entitled: Night on Earth – Humanitarian Organizations’ Relief and Rehabilitation Programmes on Behalf of Civilian Populations (1918-1939). Since 2017 Rodogno is grantee of an FNS project on Minority Protection in Belgium, Italy and Spain; and since 2018 of another FNS grant on the Rockefeller Foundation fellows as heralds of globalization (1910s-1970s). In 2019, via the History of International Organizations Network Internet platform, Rodogno and other historians will inform on activities related to the Centenary of International Organizations in Geneva.

‘The Ottoman Empire, the Issue of Interventions upon Grounds of Humanity, and Western European legal scholars during the nineteenth century’, Journal of the History of International Law, special issue, edited by Umut Ozsu and Thomas Skouteris, International Legal History of the Ottoman Empire, 2015, 5-41. (14,000 words long)

‘Beyond Releif : A Sketch of the Near East Relief’s Humanitarian Operations, 1918-1929’, Monde(s), n.6, special issue, Philanthropies, October 2014, 45-64.

‘The Dilemmas of the International Committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross Humanitarian Politics in Asia Minor and Greece in the early 1920s’, the First World War Studies, Special Issue, Humanitarianism and Humanitarian Aid, 1914-24, 2014, 83-99.

Certainty, Compassion and the Ingrained Arrogance of Humanitarianism; Is continuity preeminent over change?’, The Red Cross Movement: Re-evaluating and Re-Imagining the History of Humanitarianism, edited by James Crossland, Melanie Oppenheim and Neville Wylie, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019).

‘Nineteenth-century interventions d’humanity and the issue of responsibility’, International Responsibility. Essays in Law, History and Philosophy, edited by Samantha Besson, (Geneve: Editions Schulthess, 2017), 140-155.

‘The Near East Relief humanitarian politics and practices in the aftermath of the First World War’, The Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention, edited by Fabian Klose, Cambridge University Press, 2015.

‘Wartime occupation by Italy’, (Chapter 2, Part C.) Occupation, Collaboration, Resistance and Liberation in The Cambridge History of the Second World War, edited by Richard Bosworth and Joe Maiolo, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Public Outreach, Articles in Newspapers and participation to documentaries

Interview of the Radio Suisse Romande on Fascism’s European Empire and military occupations during the Second World War, Histoire Vivante, January 2017. Broadcast in February 2017.

The Responsibility to Protect Core Group in Geneva, the Permanent Mission of Australia, Ghana, Hungary, Nigerai, Rwanda and Uruguay, with the support of the UN Office in Geneva, 10th Anniversary of the R2P, Implementing R2P in the Geneva Context – a Focus on Prevention, 19 November 2015.http://www.globalr2p.org/media/files/r2p-concept-note.pdf

Activitiés

Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique Suisse, Rockefeller Fellows as Heralds of Globalization: the Circulation of Elites, Knowledge, and Practices of Modernization (1920s-1970s), with professors Ludovic Tournès, Thomas David, post-doc Dr. Yi-Tang Lin, three PhD students, various collaborators and a partnership with the Rockefeller Archives Centres (awarded, approximately 1,5 million CHF), 2018-2022.